Random Wildlife - Found me a badger!

[Vince]

Last night I was woken up by what sounded like somebody in my back garden trying to break in. I come downstairs to have a look what was going on and to my surprise I found this fella rummaging around in a bin that I forgot to put into our little outdoor container.



He stuck around for quite a while and clearly knew I was there as he had a couple of cheeky glances up at me. He then proceeded to drag the contents of the bin all over the garden and make off with a couple of pieces of pizza.

I have decided that badgers are very cool animals

 

[Vince]

It's nice to see a thread where people appreciate these sort of animal encounters

I absolutely love it, common visitors in my garden include hedgehogs, foxes, badger! (now named Keith) and we also have a robin who lives in the garden too, I call him Rupert (yea I know I am sad) but he is an incredibly inquisitive bird and always comes to say hello when I am in the Garden. I think they all come off of the train line that runs along the bottom of the garden.

Also I have found out that contrary to what kids television have you believe, Badgers do not in fact like mash potato but are partial to the odd peanut butter sandwich. Next mission "Badger Cam" and a peanut butter sandwich for our friend.

 

[Vince]

So i found this and it seems to give some suggestions on what they like. I may leave a sarnie out for him, set up a camera and se if he comes back. Mind you looking at his size he clearly isn't struggling to find food.

I get the occasional hole dug in the garden but frankly I just stamp it down and throw a bit of seed over it in the spring. no biggie.

http://www.badgerland.co.uk/animals/food/yourgarden.html

 

[Vince]

A little thread resurrection. It just happened again but this time a different animal. Got home from work as normal and all the cats were in as they normal are waiting for me to get in. I gave them all a snack before their dinner later and while I am dossing about having a look at the post and other mundane stuff while waiting for the wife to get home, I hear one of the cats making a funny noise at the window. I get up and have a look at what all the commotion is about but cant see a thing out back as it is pretty dark, so head into another room out the back of our house where I can turn on the outside light. Sure enough there it was, a rabbit, but this one was big and white not like any wild rabbit I have seen before. In fact the only place I recall seeing rabbits locally was when I used to drive the roads around hanningfield reservoir and I am pretty sure they were always grey/brown in colour, anyway before I could do much it legged it (hopped) up the garden. So gents are there big white rabbits wondering around the gardens in the southend/thorpe bay area or are my suspicions that this is probably somebodys pet that has done a runner more likely?

 

[Vince]

It`s Harvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(film)

It literally is just a little bit smaller.

 

[Vince]

My wife went over an already dead badger on the expressway on the way to work a few years ago in her lowered MX5 and as it was quite low it made quite a mess underneath, i jetwashed off all i could when she got home but for several months afterwards when you had the top down and came to a stop you got a very distinctive smell of badger

On a happier note since we moved out to the countryside we see quite a lot of wildlife in and around our garden, we get quite a few pheasants our favourite is one we've named Pedro. We get a lot of birds, herons and rooks along with all the smaller birds. I love just standing out in the garden and watching and listening to it all. Can't say i've never seen a rabbit which wasn't brown/grey although they do seem to come in smaller and larger varieties around here, some are quite big indeed.

Pedro is the perfect name for that little fella. Glad to see it's not just me who names the local wildlife